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"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion."
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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."
"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
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"Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through."
"When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!"
"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed."
"It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine."
"I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate."
"Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer."
"People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music."
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